Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Mediebolaget Västkusten, MBVK |
Editor-in-chief | Herman Nikolic |
Founded | 1850 |
Political alignment | Independent liberal |
Language | Swedish |
Headquarters | Halmstad, Sweden |
Circulation | 29,900 (2013) |
Sister newspapers | Hallands Nyheter |
ISSN | 1103-9361 |
Website | Hallandsposten |
Hallandsposten is a Swedish local morning newspaper printed in Halmstad, Sweden. It is the major newspaper of Halmstad, Hylte and Laholm municipalities
Hallandsposten was established in 1850. [2] The first issue appeared on 30 July 1850. [3] The paper became daily in 1900, before that it was printed two times a week. One of the editors of the paper was Eric Hägge who served in the post in the early 1940s. [4]
Hallandsposten is part of the Mediebolaget Västkusten, MBVK, which also owns Hallands Nyheter. [3] Hallandsposten was published in broadsheet format until 2007 when it switched to tabloid format. [5] The paper has an independent liberal leaning. [3]
Hallandsposten was the first newspaper in Sweden to make old prints available to the public. [6] The newspaper has digitalised all print editions since 1931. [7] They are scanned, OCR-processed and available to the public. [8] [9] Older prints were excluded because original quality was too low to OCR-process.
The circulation of Hallandsposten was 32,200 copies in 1996. [2] It was 30,900 copies in 2010. [10] Next year the paper reached 120,000 readers. [3] The paper had a circulation of 29,100 copies in 2012 and 29,000 copies in 2013. [11]